- llamalizard
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- Intrepid Legendary Member
I wish I was still legendary.
Get over it. Microsoft price the games, and Bungie makes games for profit, not for fun.
This game is ESPECIALLY good for those people without live and/or who didn't DL the maps or recently bought the game, as it gives them the COMPLETE MM experience, including all maps, for less then it's worth.
Let's look at it:
4x priced DLC packs, each starting at 800msp (when many people downloaded it) = $40. This has now dropped to about $27 with the release of MMP2 on the horizon for 800, Legendary for 650, and MMP1 for 800.
Original H3 = $60. What did you get? 11 maps and a relative short, frankly slightly underwhelming campaign. You basically paid $40 for the original MM (including forge & theater), which is what most people play more, and $20 for the campaign, which you'd play a few times for achievements then forget about. Add to this the price of DLC, and you have anywhere between $87 and $100 - for the NORMAL edition, if all DLC was bought. Legendary was $ 150, for what? a helmet, bigger box and another CD? With this, you'd spend nearly $200 on the game + DLC.
ODST: 24 maps, AKA the entire h3 MM experience, usually costing approximately $67-180 depending of H3 version (minus my valuation of campaign), for $60, PLUS a new game mode, 1750 points worth of achievements, a New 5-6 hour campaign with open-world elements, and if you spend $100 a controller (for a cheaper price then normal, too). Essentially, for the Price of the NORMAL edition of Halo 3, you get over $100 worth of stuff.
ODST is a much better deal then H3 was overall.
[Edited on 06.05.2009 4:19 AM PDT]